EASTERN BRAZIL—CHASE 403 
in clouds. We deliberated as to which side we should climb (there 
is no detailed map of the region) and decided in favor of the tower- 
ing pyramidal peak. It was a hard climb but presented no such 
difficulties as those encountered on Agulhas Negras, and this agreed 
with accounts of Pico de Bandeira. But at the summit the clouds 
lifted for a few minutes from the opposite ridge and it was higher 
than we were. We learned later that we had climbed Pontao Crystal, 
2,798 meters high, instead of Pico de Bandeira, 2,884 meters high. 
There was no time to ascend the other ridge, nor food enough to 
allow us to remain another day. The botanizing on Pontio Crystal 
was probably as good as on the Pico so I probably did not lose much, 
still it was disappointing. We reached the resthouse about 2 o’clock, 
packed at once, and started back down the mountain. 
At the clean little hotel at Capara6é the following day I got my 
great stacks of plants in press ready for the train at 3. After a night 
at Santa Luzia Carangola, where the hard beds seemed soft by 
comparison with our recent ones, we parted in the early morning, 
Miss Rolfs and José returning to Vigosa, I bound for Rio de Janeiro. 
When I reached my pension about 11 that night, I rejoiced to find 
my trunk and duffle sacks sent on from Vicosa. 
The flowering season was almost as definitely past as if it were 
late fall in the Temperate Zone, and a few trips about Rio de 
Janeiro and in the mountains north secured little additional material. 
So I made one more trip into campo country, to Campos do Jordio 
in northern Sao Paulo. The hill are open campos rich in grasses, 
the hollows between filled with Araucaria woods. In one of these 
moist ferny ravines I found another Chusquea (C. sellowti) in 
flower. 
May 31, rejoicing in what I had found and regretting what I had 
not (Doctor Rolfs says a botanist is never satisfied), I sailed for 
home. A compiled list of grasses known from Brazil contains about 
1,100 species. In the few points of eastern Brazil visited I collected 
between 500 and 600 species. The grass flora of Brazil must be far 
greater than at present known and would well repay further 
exploration. 
